Off-duty IMPD cop gets workout during arrest of bar patron

12:23 PM,
Mar. 8, 2014

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A police officer in Broad Ripple on a spring-like Friday night could reasonably expect some rowdiness.

But the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department's John Walters, working off-duty as a security man for the Rock Lobster bar the night of March 7, got a real workout subduing a 23-year-old man.

The donnybrook commenced at at 11 p.m. when the young man was refused entry into the club, at 820 Broad Ripple Ave., for appearing to be drunk. He refused to go quietly into the night. After a failed negotiation, Walters grabbed hold of him and placed him under arrest. Then came a highly athletic ...